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Workers are being lured to work in factories producing electronic goods but have to pay a fee to secure the job.

After that they are in debt and have to work to pay it off, sometimes being forced to surrender travel documents.

Malaysia is a major manufacturer of electronics but supply chains are not properly regulated, says Dan Viederman of Verité.

He wants all companies to end forced labor in their supply chains.

Dan Viederman is CEO of Verité, a non-profit consulting organization that helps multinationals identify and solve supply chain and human rights problems. He has worked with NGOs, governments, investors and multinational companies to improve working conditions and eliminate human rights violations. The views in this article are solely his.

(CNN)If you are reading this on a tablet, smart phone or computer monitor, then you may be holding a product of forced labor.

Businesses and consumers worldwide share in the shame of Malaysia's forced labor problem.

This new and conclusive evidence of forced labor ought to disturb major electronics companies that outsource their production to Malaysia.

As stewards of international trade with the ability to influence global policy and affect consumer behavior, these companies have the power and responsibility to push for meaningful reforms and combat forced labor in the countries that supply their products.

While the factors underlying modern-day slavery in Malaysia are complex, the solutions are at hand.

First and foremost, multinational companies must implement strict policies to ensure that workers in their supply chains have not paid fees to get jobs and that they have easy access to their identity documents throughout their employment.

To do this, multinational companies must extend their current social assessments to include inquiries about worker debt and passport retention.

They must ensure that recruiters reimburse any illegal fees they have collected from workers.

Companies must also conduct due diligence on the business practices of recruiters who find, place or otherwise manage workers in their suppliers' facilities.

Forced labor is prohibited by the internal codes of conduct of virtually all multinationals, yet it is common in the supply chains of the most sophisticated businesses in the world.

No multinational company intentionally relies on exploitation as part of its business model, yet many overlook forced labor practices that would shock their consumers.

Some companies have addressed the problem, including by strictly limiting fees and even reimbursing workers for overcharges. But it's clear that we need a much larger, industry-wide effort.

It's time that multinational electronics companies took strict, comprehensive and measurable steps to put forced labor in Malaysia and other countries out of business.